Am 06.12.2013 18:20, schrieb Alexander Rødseth: > * Arch Linux has vanilla packages, so we should try to avoid including > files that are hand-crafted by packagers
If the files are needed, we include them. It's that simple. > * It clutters the repository One or two extra files per package is not a problem. > * Including .desktop files is basically the same as patching. And this > quote: "Patching only occurs in extremely rare cases, to prevent > severe breakage in the instance of version mismatches that may occur > within a rolling release model." from > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_Linux That is nonsense. A .desktop file is a simple configuration file. We ship custom default configurations for our packages whenever necessary. More importantly, we should never compromise functionality for ideological or political reasons - for me, that is part of Arch's simplicity. In short, whenever upstream provides a correct .desktop file, we should use it. Otherwise, we should provide our own (exactly like we do with .service files).
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